Sports word search
Football, judo and skating: twenty sports in a grid, from netball to rowing, with words across, down and diagonally. For sports day, the PE lesson or the week of the Olympics.
- Athletics
- Basketball
- Boxing
- Climbing
- Cycling
- Dancing
- Football
- Golf
- Gymnastics
- Hockey
- Judo
- Netball
- Riding
- Rowing
- Running
- Skating
- Skiing
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Volleyball
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
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Name
| R | O | W | I | N | G | C | L | B | I | T | E | I | R |
| E | P | L | C | V | O | L | L | E | Y | B | A | L | L |
| N | G | N | I | D | A | L | P | I | R | H | O | L | S |
| U | D | N | U | B | A | G | V | E | M | G | A | T | G |
| O | Y | J | T | B | N | Y | A | P | N | B | S | N | O |
| G | O | E | T | I | N | M | G | I | T | I | I | G | G |
| O | N | O | C | O | A | N | T | E | N | N | N | N | T |
| L | O | N | P | E | I | A | K | N | N | I | I | Y | G |
| F | A | O | D | M | K | S | E | U | L | D | E | N | T |
| D | E | Y | M | S | A | T | R | C | I | K | I | V | M |
| T | O | I | P | B | C | I | Y | R | C | X | O | U | T |
| F | W | A | S | S | S | C | U | O | O | C | I | H | H |
| S | K | I | I | N | G | S | H | B | E | R | K | O | S |
| H | F | A | T | H | L | E | T | I | C | S | E | A | S |
Find these words
- Athletics
- Basketball
- Boxing
- Climbing
- Cycling
- Dancing
- Football
- Golf
- Gymnastics
- Hockey
- Judo
- Netball
- Riding
- Rowing
- Running
- Skating
- Skiing
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Volleyball
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About this word search
Netball grew out of early basketball and is played mostly in Commonwealth countries, which is why it shows up on so many British school timetables. It sits here among nineteen other sports, from Rowing to Gymnastics.
Basketball and Volleyball are the longest words and share the ending ball with Football and Netball, so check the start of each before circling. The grid is fourteen squares wide, and words go across, down or diagonally without ever running backwards. Golf and Judo are short.
In a PE lesson, the list works as a warm-up discussion: which sports use a ball, which happen in water and which can be done alone.
Ways to use this word search
In the classroom
Print it as a task for early finishers, or to open a lesson on this topic. With the QR code on the sheet, pupils check their own answers.
At home and on the go
Pack a few printed sheets for the car, the train or the holidays. A pen is all you need, no screen required.
Play together
Print the sheet twice and race each other. Whoever finds all the words first wins. Or play it online and see who is fastest.
Try it in English (New Zealand) too
The same theme also exists in English (New Zealand), Spanish, French, and German, each with its own word list in that language. Handy if you are learning a language: you already know the topic, now just the words.
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